Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secondly, we must deny the word "renascence." Students here have been talking about religion for a good many years, and so to infer that there has been a lapse in theological inquiry is not really accurate. If the word is to imply a renascence of the religion of the Puritan...
General unanimity seems to exist that Harvard is secular, despite its Protestant Divinity School. Harvard's present secularist position, though, represents the end product of a long evolution, and the vestiges of earlier evidences of a sectarian and religious past have sometimes caused friction.
The Presiding Bishop of the Protestant'Episcopal Church in the U.S.A., the Most Rev. Arthur Carl Lichten-berger-Oshkosh High School, Oshkosh, Wis., 1918.
Ministers feel that the new popularity of confession is a response to the anxieties of the modern world, and a symptom of the growing Protestant shift from services and sermons to personal pastoral care. "We do not emphasize the form," says one pastor. "It must not become a routine." Many...
Some Lutherans, concerned that the trend to confession represents a risky rise in clerical power that is incompatible with Protestant principles, minimize it as a flash in the pan that flares in the fervor of a Kirchentag and subsides in the cooler air of everyday life. Yet a growing number...